Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-26 Thread Yury Sakarinen
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller писал 2013-08-24 17:31: For me GTA04 is not usable as daily phone. It's now collecting dust in shelf. Why? 1/ poor power management 2/ bugged reenumerating modem GTA04 is good enough only in some situations. E.g. ok if i carry it to work where i can anytime charge

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-26 Thread Radek Polak
On Saturday, August 24, 2013 03:20:10 PM joerg Reisenweber wrote: On Sat 24 August 2013 14:22:55 Radek Polak wrote: 1/ poor power management [...] something. But i always worked in userspace. I barely understand kernel and i have no EE skills and equipment to contribute. I can

Re: [Gta04-owner] Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-26 Thread Radek Polak
On Monday, August 26, 2013 01:17:09 PM Radek Polak wrote: To give you a simple example: on N900 maemo you have scanning period in settings-internet, which makes device scan for WLAN APs only every 5, 10, ... even 30 min. This is needed since the WLAN chip cuts thru the battery in less

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-26 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 26 August 2013 13:17:09 Radek Polak wrote: On Saturday, August 24, 2013 03:20:10 PM joerg Reisenweber wrote: On Sat 24 August 2013 14:22:55 Radek Polak wrote: 1/ poor power management [...] something. But i always worked in userspace. I barely understand kernel and i

GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-26 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
Hello! Short introduction, as I was rather inactive in this community recently: I'm dos, long time Openmoko supporter, owner of GTA02 and (now broken) Nokia N900. Few years ago I was quite an active developer of FSO (opimd) and SHR. Few days ago I've created website draft for GTA04. As we all

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-26 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] What do you think? Hello Dos, I think it is great showcase how open projects can benefit from synergy. However I personally am not interested in HW keyboard and I will wait until my present phone wears off, before I buy next device. -- Patryk LeadMan Benderz Linux

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-26 Thread Tomas Nackaerts
Hi all! I actually think this is a great idea! I always liked the N900 formfactor. But is it technically possible? I remember somebody mention that the option modem is quite big? And if there will be a redesign the fit the gta04 to the n900 will it possible to update the specs a bit? faster

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-26 Thread arne anka
the most striking part of jörg's n900 idea seems not to attract any comments -- he said, he'd know at least one company who would be interested. being interested does not necessarily translate into will buy, but at least it would be worth to contemplate ...

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-26 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 26 August 2013 21:47:08 arne anka wrote: the most striking part of jörg's n900 idea seems not to attract any comments -- he said, he'd know at least one company who would be interested. Oh? where did I say this? Been a communication error. Or a complete storage dropout ;-) Sorry both

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-26 Thread arne anka
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 22:25:06 +0200, joerg Reisenweber jo...@openmoko.org wrote: On Mon 26 August 2013 21:47:08 arne anka wrote: the most striking part of jörg's n900 idea seems not to attract any comments -- he said, he'd know at least one company who would be interested. Oh? where did I

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-26 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 26 August 2013 14:35:50 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: [...] Joerg's idea includes full port of Maemo 5 (Fremantle) to allow N900 users to have drop-in upgrade - just like now GTA04 is for GTA01/02 owners. I think that can increase interest a lot! Indeed I consider maemo fremantle

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-26 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
I would say, maemo fremantle is great. if we could manage to make it free, i. e. rewrite it's non-free parts, and make it available on more platforms, like nexus, it'll be great. having free hardware in n900 case it good too. but first of all let's get working free, indeed free maemo. not the

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-26 Thread NeilBrown
On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 15:31:19 +0200 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Hm. That sounds quite different from the situation about 1 year ago when you did the first releases of QtMoko and I always thought that the 3.7 kernel is working well enough, so that I started to add new